Turnout: 72.10%
About this election
Finland's parliamentary election of 14 April 2019 produced the tightest result in modern Finnish history. The Social Democrats (SDP) under Antti Rinne finished first with 17.73% and 40 seats — the party's first election victory since 1999 — just ahead of the Finns Party (17.48%, 39 seats) and the National Coalition Party (17.00%, 38 seats). The governing Centre Party collapsed from 49 to 31 seats. Turnout rose to 72.1%. Antti Rinne formed a five-party, centre-left coalition (SDP, Centre, Greens, Left Alliance and the Swedish People's Party); after his resignation in December 2019 he was succeeded as prime minister by Sanna Marin, who at 34 became one of the world's youngest serving heads of government.
The 200-seat Eduskunta is elected by open-list proportional representation (d'Hondt) in 13 districts, with Åland electing one member. Voters select an individual candidate. There is no national threshold.
The election was defined by the near-equal standing of four parties and by the strong showing of the Green League (20 seats) and Left Alliance (16). Climate policy and the future of social and health-care services dominated the campaign. The Finns Party, by then led by Jussi Halla-aho, narrowly missed first place.
In 2015 the Centre Party had won 49 seats and Juha Sipilä led a centre-right government that fractured shortly before the 2019 vote over a failed health-care and regional-government reform.
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) and the Ministry of Justice election results service — stat.fi.